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this paper is committed to the policy of public ownership of public utilities Chicago examiner vol xvi no 7 a m saturday Chicago december 29 1917 saturday u.s^utsffic price two cents j&fggft&a tk's Chicago first to feel rail control all freight to be routed around i i city to end the congestion caused by switching of cars nnecessary passenger traffic to be eliminated as mcadoo's first step war board remains ilshington dec 28.â€”drastic changes to follow govern i ment control of railroads ef ] from noon to-day will be first i Chicago first and greatest problem of lera operating bureau will be jrdinate the Chicago freight als the largest in the world ght between the east west and south now loses a week's | n being switched in Chicago als handling of freight will be ex i by sending it around the hus preventing it being held the maze of switch tracks and i is iccomplished by picking lortest route and dispatching light through without the at it delays of shunting the cars , i until they reach the tracks lesignated road and the joint all terminals advent of government control ithout formalities president l'a proclamation of december ught it about automatically ctor general mcadoo announced other plans tediate relief for the crowded lal situation in new york and lersey action of unnecessary passen d freight trains eminent to nay for its passen id freight transportation roads to keep their own books rkest and most direct routing uji with it common use of rail facilities and abolition of ship choice of routing railways war board put these stious up to director general oi lediate reduction of traffic fa s for nonessential commodities gresslonal appropriation for ng fund 100 is confident ail improvement er director general mcaiioo had head of the railway system of ountry for seven hours he said lought the most pressing prob f the moment congestion of the ; lines would be relieved l'n sary trains will be ruthlessly re el shipments sent by the most t routes and common use made le railroad facilities mediate advisers of mr mcadoo be the present railways war 1 judge lovett chairman of the ity board the interstate corn e commission and judge john n payne chief counsel for the ling board dintment of liams in doubt ige payne will in all probability 3sociated with mr mcadoo in a n capacity the office was left h undesignated w^x-.the appointment df john skelton williams comptroller of the currency for assistant director of the rail p^^oads though looked for to-day was pkut made the director treneral du pjled he had not yet settled on a _ b for the position bfcrstate commerce commissioner mcadoo wires all rail heads asking full aid washington dec 28 wii 41am g mcadoo who to-day took charge of the railroads as director general sent the fallow ing telegram to the president and board of directors of every rail road in the country having assumed the duties imposed upon me by and in pursuance of the proclamation of the president dated decem ber 26 1917 you will until otherwise ordered continue the operation of your road in con formity with the said procla mation you are required to make every possible effort to increase efficiency and to move traffic by the most convenient and ex peditious routej i confidently count on your hearty co-opera tion it is only through united efforts unselfish service and ef fective work that this war can be won and america's future secured w g m'adoo director general of railroads wright aero aid is spy suspect paid h billhuber held on charge of violating espionage act secret data found paul m billhuber formerly trusted employe of the wright com pany a subsidiary of the wright martin aircraft corporation at day ton 0 faces a charge to-day of being a german spy federal agents say they have found a complete set of plans for united states war aeroplanes and secret formulas used in their manufacture among his effects billhuber is now in custody charged with being a draft slacker and with violating the espionage act wright company officials are en route here to attend a hearing to-day at which his status will be determined two months before the war began billhuber was in germany a sales man of excessories used in making pianos alleged pro-german senti ments of ins parents who reside at maywood n j caused the investiga tion wallace s whittaker traffic man ager of the wright company iden j tified records maps and copies of the minutes of the company's board yes terday before united states commis sioner mason whittaker testified the company's plant virtually had been turned over to the government for the exclusive manufacture of war planes he as serted billhuber had no right to take plans from the plant and pointed among billhuber's papers to a secret recipe for making liquid veneer federal investigators predicted he would be held to the federal grand jury conviction as a spy would mean death or internment by presidential order death sentence for draft foe is vetoed camp dix wrightstown n j dec 28 â€” brigadier general mallory commander of the camp here to-day overruled the court-martial sentence of death by musketry passed on pri vate rudolf brana twenty-seven of north bergen n j convicted ot twice disobeying orders brana de clared himself a conscientious ob jector to the selective draft the court-martial sentence was unani mous but general mallory deemed the punishment too severe the court martial refused to reconsider the ver dict so the sentence was vetoed la follette expelled by club as enemy aid madison wis dec 28 the mad ison club to-night efpelled senator la follette from membership because of unpatriotic conduct and having given aid and comfort to the enemy u s soldiers died for lack of clothing shocking conditions in training comps revealed bygen.greble before senate committee lives would have been saved i war department had acted more quickly says commande washington dec 28 shockin conditions of death and sufferin among the troops at camp bowie tex were related to the senate mili tary affairs committee to-day by ma jor general edward st john greble commanding the thirty-sixth divi sion training at the camp improper sanitation inadequat hospital facilities and insufficien clothing were declared to be re â– sponsible for the high mortality an i sickness these conditions were ag jgravated by failure to receive sup ! plies requisitioned from the quarter i master general's department letters were written as earl as september by major genera greble to surgeon general gorga quartermaster general sharpe gen eral i-ittell of the oantonnjent divl sion and tfie chief of staff saying \ i nothing were done to remedy sani tary conditions overcrowding an i lack of clothing there would be ep demies at camp bowie texas the epidemics came in one mont 8,000 men passed through the hos pital which could accommodate onl s00 at one time 1,800 men wer crowded into it to-day 800 me are ill at camn bowie * nothing was done by the war de partment to relieve the situation unt november when the diseases ha spread through the cantonment 'â€¢ deaths caused by decay do you think if the war depar ment had acted promptly on your rec ommendations and warnings that th epidemic could have been stopped senator chamberlain asked i don't know that it would ha stopped the epidemic but it wou have saved a great many lives sa general greble general greble declared many liv would have been saved if wint clothing sufficient tents and ho pital facilities and sanitation had been provided 13 sleep in tent he said the war department ha ordered twelve men housed in each tent he said they were so thick you couldn't walk between them officials at washington finally re sponded to his appeals by sending nurses â– clothing and tents in the meantime an appeal to the red cross i had brought 21,000 sweaters and 14,000 comforts for the suffering drill with wooden guns while these conditions were being endured a large number of the in fantrymen were being drilled with wooden guns and artillerymen were learning the art of war by listening to lectures because they had no guns i with which to practice there were similar shortages ir every other branch of equipment general greble's testimony was i given without any attempt to mini jmize or withhold the details i hookworm in war dept ~ general greble could not even gel a division flag from general sharps j without writing a personal letter ! much against the old campaigner's ' will this letter was read before the i committee f general greble said surgeon i thought hookworm was prevalent h i texas general inquired senator hitch i cock don't you think hookworm ex u s weather forecast Chicago aivd vicinity â€” gener ally fair nnd continued cold satur day sunday probably fair and not quite so cold moderate north went winds saturday becoming southwest by sunday < tempeeatobe fur twenty-four hour enxiink at 2 a m : highest 34 lowest 2 mean is normal temperature or the day 26 sunrise to-du 7:18 aunsct isb ccwvlele onfemmeiit report o pose 13 french repel sudden drive in lorraine crown prince's troops thrown back by concerted artillery fire german trench invaded great snowstorm enveloping lines causes delay in ameri cans training three killed london dec 28 â€” following an intense artillery bombardment of sev eral hours the german crown prince to-day delivered a heavy surprise'at tack against the french near veho in lorraine the french met the j blow with a hurricane fire from con ! centrated batteries and threw the foe j back fbexch take prisoners in upper alsace a french patrol | made an incursion into the german ; lines and brought back prisoners northeast of bezonvaux french gunners caught a hostile troop move ment in a rain of shells the mass ing german infantrymen were dis persed with heavy losses - the ger man batteries continued to rake french positions north of cauriers wood but no infantry attacks rere jrftemptect â– ~ t snow hinders^operations the exceptional cold which has prevailed in northern and central i france during the past ten days has now extended to southern france snow has made its appearance at pau toulouse marbonne and other points where the winter usually is mild and sunny at saint fleur which stands at an elevation of about 3,000 i feet above the sea the thermometer has fallen to 5 degrees below zero i fahrenheit pershing cuts off all paris leaves with the american army in france dec 28 â€” under orders from general pershing division command ers to-day suspended indefinitely all paris leave for both officers and men no explanation was given headquarters to-day announced four more casualties among the america forces on christmas eve a german shell burst among a party of united states engineers working on a front line trench killing a sergeant and wounding a private two other americans were killed on a recent moonlight night when ger man airmen raided their camp in a certain well-known wood a bomb inflicted the casualties blizzard perils supplies three days of continuous snow along the american front are making the supply problem a serious one if the blizzard continues the advanced troops may have to endure the pinch of hunger for a while the severe weather has found the i americans prepared and there is no suffering although in the higher alti tudes the men have been unable to do as much wqrk as those occupying lowland positions a newly landed division of national guardsmen to-day reached its desig nated camp after a two-day march j through the storm they arrived in i perfect condition the troops fresh from southern training camps were uncomfortable at first but have now become hard ened to the cold two casualties named washington dec 28 â€” general pershing to-day reported the names of the american engineers killed and wounded on december 23 they were killed â€” corporal russell w sprague mother mrs sherman sprague 15 california middletown n y slight ly wounded â€” corporal charles g hewitt mother mrs bessie a hew itt 110 camden street rockland me president works on sixty-first birthday washington dec 28 â€” president wilson to-day celebrated his sixty first birthday without special cere mony owing to the rush of war work any change in the regular rou tine of his day was impossible the president this morning played golf with mrs wilson afterward working on the railroad address he will de liver next week before congresa white russia declares its independence petrograd dec 28 white russia has announced its de cision to be an independent re public at a meeting in minsk which is now in session a rada or governing body will be elected and a proclamation of independ ence issued this is the tenth portion of the russian empire to announce its secession since the fall of fhe romanoff dynasty the others are voronezh orenburg ukrainia caucasia finland siberia kuban amur don territory kaiser threat alarms russ trotsky spurs troops to front af j v ter ge'rman move to seize important towns stockholm dec 2s â€” an amer ican diplomatic courier to petrogrnd j has nren e/o*ed nflmj r i*loir'v miissia ? on the ground that his pass had not been vised by m borovshy the bol shevik minister at stockholm this is the first time that a regular cour ier's pass has not heen honored it is assumed here that the bolshevik hope in this way to exert pressure and compel the indirect recognition of their foreign representatives london dec 28 the bolshevik j government is reported panic | stricken over the rumored threat by ihe central powers to seize various | strategic points in russia unless the bolsheviki during the present re cess in brest-litovsk parleys are able to bring the entente countries to enter the parleys with a view to a general peace should russian mediation fail to bring this about according to the rumors germany will seize and oc cupy the strategic points in question as further pressure on the entente allies the semi-official russian news agency reports that foreign minis ter trotsky in an address to the pe trograd garrison reminded them that as peace had not been concluded as yet it was necessary to maintain the russian fighting front in answer to this appeal the report says the garrison voted to s^nd troops to all points where they were needed ten-day recess ox petrograd dec 28 â€” the central powers peace delegates have agreed to a ten-day recess in the peace negotiations which will be resumed . january 4 at a place not determined leon trotsky is reported to be pre paring a new note asking the allies to participate in the parleys he is also expected to issue shortly a mes , sage to the peoples of the world â– reds seize all banks detachments of the red guards un der orders from finance commission er menshinsky to-day seized all pri , vate banks in petrograd including i the branch of the national city bank of new york the manager of the latter r r stevens was arrested ' and detained for a short while the â– bank officials are accused of sabot â– age many gave up the keys to their vaults but mr stevens refused joffre to be made a french immortal paris dec 28 â€” announcement was made to-day that marshal joffre soon is to become one of the im mortals of the french academy the announcement says the french academy having been sounded on the subject of the candidature of marshal joffre it will show itself happy to receive in its bosom the glorious victor of the marne mrs armour waits in garage as gas freezes mrs j ogden armour and her daughter miss lolita spent half an hour in a wilmette garage yester day waiting for a relief machine from the armour lake forest estate when the automobile in which they were returning from Chicago became stalled because of frozen gasoline allies will revise war aims entente likely to make concessions america to stand on ideals of wilson no restatement of our war aims j held necessary good faith of teuton proposals is doubted bulgaria repudiates no annexa tion . policy nd intends to \ hold all conquered territory i i washington dec 28 a re statement of the war aims of j the allies is likely to result i from count czernin's proposals at brest-litovsk at the state depart j ment to-day it was said no further : statement is required from the unit ed states as this country's aims were clearly set forth by president wil son in his reply to the pope england france and italy how ever have made no such statement the letter of premier lloyd george to the british labor congress in which he said the question of issuing a fresh joint declaration was being con stantly kept in view by the allied governments was interpreted as her alding a new utterance germany hopes to estrange italy it is acknowledged that there are probably strong internal reasons within the entente countries for mak ing concessions to powerful political elements which are insisting on a re str.tement of war aims this restatement is apparently the prime object of the present german peace propaganda which was official ly characterized to-day as the great est political drive against the a'lies since the war began the germans hope according to diplomatic opinion here by this means to create es trangements among the allies them selves the german idea appears to be that by compelling the allies to define their war objects specifically a de sire to annex territories and impose indemnities will be divulged through the revelation of conflict ing aims they hope it is believed to bring about the desertion of such na tions as italy and greece before making any restatement however it is thought certain that the allies will want to assure them selves that count czernin's peace of fer speaks for all the central powers bulgaria's aims shown by premier already his formula of no annexa tions and no indemnities has been repudiated by bulgaria a diplomatic dispatch received here to-day gives the official bulgarian report of a speech by the prime minister before the bulgarian parliament at sofia the premier announced bulgaria's war aims in this speech our war aims are fixed we want , the unification of the bulgarian na tion of the bulgarian tribe in boundaries which are exactly fixed f we want the annulment of the bucharest treaty a correction of our frontier with serbia including in the territory of bulgaria all of the lands which are populated by bulgarians along the morava river to the danube we want macedonia with that part which by the treaty of bucharest was cut off from bul garia our claims are well known we are not worried by the formula without annexation and without in demnity our formula is the uni fication of the bulgarian nation the repudiation of count czernin's i terms by bulgaria has again raised the question of the central powers good faith even presuming that aus tria and germany can whip bulgaria into line . the question was asked what guarantee can we have that germany also will ot repudiate the terms either directly or by subter fuge george disclaims imperial purpose premier tells labor congress britain's object is same as at outset freedom of mankind henderson demands aims be re stated labor congress passes resolution for no-conquest peace london dec 2s â€” a new and definite statement of great britain's war aims is under consideration premier lloyd george , indicated to-day this announce ment was made in a letter the pre mier sent to the british trades and â€¢ labor union congress in this letter regarded as eng land's reply to the peace proposals made by the central powers at brest litovsk the premier said the question of a fresh declar ation of our war aims is constantly kept in view but such a declara tion will only be issued in agree ment with our allies achievement of the purposes for which the allies are fighting is es sential to the future freedom and peace of mankind allies purposes are not imperialistic or vindictive the ideals for which we are now fighting are the same as when great britain entered the war i have never been more con vinced than now that the purposes of the allies in continuing the war are not imperialistic or vindictive but to achieve the future freedom and peace of mankind president wilson's statement of the allied war aims recently made to congress were indorsed late this afternoon by unanimous vote by the trade and labor unionists at their j congress this vote followed an addre3 bur ! arthur henderson labor leader ji i which he declared england should go j on record as approving and accept i ing the american aims set forth by i president wilson | henderson sees fight for new government mr henderson said the war becomes a struggle of ! old and new systems of govern ! ment secret diplomacy and eoni ' pulsory military service should be i rendered unnecessary the allies must renounce their in tention of creating an impenetrable barrier against the german people germany's autocracy must give place to democracy militarism must be universally discredited labor asks an opportunity to as certain how germany is prepared to accept the laborite peac proposals the american people are fighting for a league of nation tn,->r l than anything else and yet this moment l has been selected by sir edward'car ' j son to treat that proposal with scorn i j and contempt â€” ; assails carson ; | henderson outlined carson's recent . j speech at portsmouth in which a i declared that not speaking lightly j we knew austria and turkey did uot | j want to continue a aren't we justified henderiortl continued in concluding th*t aijj u s too late to save allies says andrassy zukich dec 28 count julius andrassy former premier of hungary writing on the peace question says from the moment we were free in the east the whole situ ation fundamentally changed and the central powers now also will gain supremacy in the west it is no longer possible for america to give us the fin ishing stroke she must save the entente it is no longer her task to turn the last stage of the war into a final victory she must create victory out of defeat this will require great strength and i doubt if america posses ses this strength or can organ ize it before the western pow ers collapse upder our attacks france open 10 direct offer ' pinchon declares allies haye no | â– desire to crush foe but demands alsace i â€” ; i paris dec 28 â€” foreign minis : \ ter pinchon to-day declared in the chamber of deputies that by agree rnent with her allies prance was ready to discuss direct propositions regarding peace but characterized \ the czernin peace offer as an indi rect proposal he added germany is trying to involve us in her maximalist negotiations af ter suffering as we have we can not accept peace based on the status quo before the war france must conquer to assure the world a peace of justice and fraternity , we desire the liberation of our occupied territories just reparation for what has been forcibly torn from us reintegration of alsace lorraine reparation for damages sustained and a guarantee of dur able peace by international agree ments â€” a society of nations the question of alsace-lorraine does not affect france alone it is a world question it is not a territorial problem but a moral problem on its solution depends whether or not the world shall have a durable peace we are in direct agreement with president wilson on a society of nations after the war c s aims their own it never has been the intention of president wilson or the alliea i to destroy the german people all the allies through their rep j resentatives made the same dec laration at petrograd that on the day when a regularly constitut 1 â– . government founded on the national j will existed in russia we would be | ready to examine with it our war aims and the conditions of a just i and durable peace j the allies representatives ao j all unable to recognize a govern ment which made an armistice i without consulting its allies ally has deserted us \ at the conclusion of m pichon's address a resolution opposing the government's policy was voted down 411 to 90 a resolution approving the government's declaration was adopted 384 to 0 swift employe gone with 20,000 the poliie are hunting for john d storrie thirty-four 334 west six tieth street for three months a clerk at swift & co.'s wholesale market 317 south water street who has dis appeared with 20,000 2,000 of which was in cash and the remainder in stocks and drafts partly negotiable storrie formerly was employed by morros & co he is bonded accord ing to the manager edward v john son but not for the entire amount johnson said storrie was sent to the hibernian bank to deposit the mopey and checks one check fc 1,000 was cashed i continued on 2d page 2d column bucd on page 2 column 5 # final s edition c x you want q * ' a homelike attractively fur ) - ' nished room in a desirable sec tion of the city you can find just such a room advertised in l j the rooms to rent columns in i i ' === f the want ad section of this i r | paper 1 ' i

this paper is committed to the policy of public ownership of public utilities Chicago examiner vol xvi no 7 a m saturday Chicago december 29 1917 saturday u.s^utsffic price two cents j&fggft&a tk's Chicago first to feel rail control all freight to be routed around i i city to end the congestion caused by switching of cars nnecessary passenger traffic to be eliminated as mcadoo's first step war board remains ilshington dec 28.â€”drastic changes to follow govern i ment control of railroads ef ] from noon to-day will be first i Chicago first and greatest problem of lera operating bureau will be jrdinate the Chicago freight als the largest in the world ght between the east west and south now loses a week's | n being switched in Chicago als handling of freight will be ex i by sending it around the hus preventing it being held the maze of switch tracks and i is iccomplished by picking lortest route and dispatching light through without the at it delays of shunting the cars , i until they reach the tracks lesignated road and the joint all terminals advent of government control ithout formalities president l'a proclamation of december ught it about automatically ctor general mcadoo announced other plans tediate relief for the crowded lal situation in new york and lersey action of unnecessary passen d freight trains eminent to nay for its passen id freight transportation roads to keep their own books rkest and most direct routing uji with it common use of rail facilities and abolition of ship choice of routing railways war board put these stious up to director general oi lediate reduction of traffic fa s for nonessential commodities gresslonal appropriation for ng fund 100 is confident ail improvement er director general mcaiioo had head of the railway system of ountry for seven hours he said lought the most pressing prob f the moment congestion of the ; lines would be relieved l'n sary trains will be ruthlessly re el shipments sent by the most t routes and common use made le railroad facilities mediate advisers of mr mcadoo be the present railways war 1 judge lovett chairman of the ity board the interstate corn e commission and judge john n payne chief counsel for the ling board dintment of liams in doubt ige payne will in all probability 3sociated with mr mcadoo in a n capacity the office was left h undesignated w^x-.the appointment df john skelton williams comptroller of the currency for assistant director of the rail p^^oads though looked for to-day was pkut made the director treneral du pjled he had not yet settled on a _ b for the position bfcrstate commerce commissioner mcadoo wires all rail heads asking full aid washington dec 28 wii 41am g mcadoo who to-day took charge of the railroads as director general sent the fallow ing telegram to the president and board of directors of every rail road in the country having assumed the duties imposed upon me by and in pursuance of the proclamation of the president dated decem ber 26 1917 you will until otherwise ordered continue the operation of your road in con formity with the said procla mation you are required to make every possible effort to increase efficiency and to move traffic by the most convenient and ex peditious routej i confidently count on your hearty co-opera tion it is only through united efforts unselfish service and ef fective work that this war can be won and america's future secured w g m'adoo director general of railroads wright aero aid is spy suspect paid h billhuber held on charge of violating espionage act secret data found paul m billhuber formerly trusted employe of the wright com pany a subsidiary of the wright martin aircraft corporation at day ton 0 faces a charge to-day of being a german spy federal agents say they have found a complete set of plans for united states war aeroplanes and secret formulas used in their manufacture among his effects billhuber is now in custody charged with being a draft slacker and with violating the espionage act wright company officials are en route here to attend a hearing to-day at which his status will be determined two months before the war began billhuber was in germany a sales man of excessories used in making pianos alleged pro-german senti ments of ins parents who reside at maywood n j caused the investiga tion wallace s whittaker traffic man ager of the wright company iden j tified records maps and copies of the minutes of the company's board yes terday before united states commis sioner mason whittaker testified the company's plant virtually had been turned over to the government for the exclusive manufacture of war planes he as serted billhuber had no right to take plans from the plant and pointed among billhuber's papers to a secret recipe for making liquid veneer federal investigators predicted he would be held to the federal grand jury conviction as a spy would mean death or internment by presidential order death sentence for draft foe is vetoed camp dix wrightstown n j dec 28 â€” brigadier general mallory commander of the camp here to-day overruled the court-martial sentence of death by musketry passed on pri vate rudolf brana twenty-seven of north bergen n j convicted ot twice disobeying orders brana de clared himself a conscientious ob jector to the selective draft the court-martial sentence was unani mous but general mallory deemed the punishment too severe the court martial refused to reconsider the ver dict so the sentence was vetoed la follette expelled by club as enemy aid madison wis dec 28 the mad ison club to-night efpelled senator la follette from membership because of unpatriotic conduct and having given aid and comfort to the enemy u s soldiers died for lack of clothing shocking conditions in training comps revealed bygen.greble before senate committee lives would have been saved i war department had acted more quickly says commande washington dec 28 shockin conditions of death and sufferin among the troops at camp bowie tex were related to the senate mili tary affairs committee to-day by ma jor general edward st john greble commanding the thirty-sixth divi sion training at the camp improper sanitation inadequat hospital facilities and insufficien clothing were declared to be re â– sponsible for the high mortality an i sickness these conditions were ag jgravated by failure to receive sup ! plies requisitioned from the quarter i master general's department letters were written as earl as september by major genera greble to surgeon general gorga quartermaster general sharpe gen eral i-ittell of the oantonnjent divl sion and tfie chief of staff saying \ i nothing were done to remedy sani tary conditions overcrowding an i lack of clothing there would be ep demies at camp bowie texas the epidemics came in one mont 8,000 men passed through the hos pital which could accommodate onl s00 at one time 1,800 men wer crowded into it to-day 800 me are ill at camn bowie * nothing was done by the war de partment to relieve the situation unt november when the diseases ha spread through the cantonment 'â€¢ deaths caused by decay do you think if the war depar ment had acted promptly on your rec ommendations and warnings that th epidemic could have been stopped senator chamberlain asked i don't know that it would ha stopped the epidemic but it wou have saved a great many lives sa general greble general greble declared many liv would have been saved if wint clothing sufficient tents and ho pital facilities and sanitation had been provided 13 sleep in tent he said the war department ha ordered twelve men housed in each tent he said they were so thick you couldn't walk between them officials at washington finally re sponded to his appeals by sending nurses â– clothing and tents in the meantime an appeal to the red cross i had brought 21,000 sweaters and 14,000 comforts for the suffering drill with wooden guns while these conditions were being endured a large number of the in fantrymen were being drilled with wooden guns and artillerymen were learning the art of war by listening to lectures because they had no guns i with which to practice there were similar shortages ir every other branch of equipment general greble's testimony was i given without any attempt to mini jmize or withhold the details i hookworm in war dept ~ general greble could not even gel a division flag from general sharps j without writing a personal letter ! much against the old campaigner's ' will this letter was read before the i committee f general greble said surgeon i thought hookworm was prevalent h i texas general inquired senator hitch i cock don't you think hookworm ex u s weather forecast Chicago aivd vicinity â€” gener ally fair nnd continued cold satur day sunday probably fair and not quite so cold moderate north went winds saturday becoming southwest by sunday < tempeeatobe fur twenty-four hour enxiink at 2 a m : highest 34 lowest 2 mean is normal temperature or the day 26 sunrise to-du 7:18 aunsct isb ccwvlele onfemmeiit report o pose 13 french repel sudden drive in lorraine crown prince's troops thrown back by concerted artillery fire german trench invaded great snowstorm enveloping lines causes delay in ameri cans training three killed london dec 28 â€” following an intense artillery bombardment of sev eral hours the german crown prince to-day delivered a heavy surprise'at tack against the french near veho in lorraine the french met the j blow with a hurricane fire from con ! centrated batteries and threw the foe j back fbexch take prisoners in upper alsace a french patrol | made an incursion into the german ; lines and brought back prisoners northeast of bezonvaux french gunners caught a hostile troop move ment in a rain of shells the mass ing german infantrymen were dis persed with heavy losses - the ger man batteries continued to rake french positions north of cauriers wood but no infantry attacks rere jrftemptect â– ~ t snow hinders^operations the exceptional cold which has prevailed in northern and central i france during the past ten days has now extended to southern france snow has made its appearance at pau toulouse marbonne and other points where the winter usually is mild and sunny at saint fleur which stands at an elevation of about 3,000 i feet above the sea the thermometer has fallen to 5 degrees below zero i fahrenheit pershing cuts off all paris leaves with the american army in france dec 28 â€” under orders from general pershing division command ers to-day suspended indefinitely all paris leave for both officers and men no explanation was given headquarters to-day announced four more casualties among the america forces on christmas eve a german shell burst among a party of united states engineers working on a front line trench killing a sergeant and wounding a private two other americans were killed on a recent moonlight night when ger man airmen raided their camp in a certain well-known wood a bomb inflicted the casualties blizzard perils supplies three days of continuous snow along the american front are making the supply problem a serious one if the blizzard continues the advanced troops may have to endure the pinch of hunger for a while the severe weather has found the i americans prepared and there is no suffering although in the higher alti tudes the men have been unable to do as much wqrk as those occupying lowland positions a newly landed division of national guardsmen to-day reached its desig nated camp after a two-day march j through the storm they arrived in i perfect condition the troops fresh from southern training camps were uncomfortable at first but have now become hard ened to the cold two casualties named washington dec 28 â€” general pershing to-day reported the names of the american engineers killed and wounded on december 23 they were killed â€” corporal russell w sprague mother mrs sherman sprague 15 california middletown n y slight ly wounded â€” corporal charles g hewitt mother mrs bessie a hew itt 110 camden street rockland me president works on sixty-first birthday washington dec 28 â€” president wilson to-day celebrated his sixty first birthday without special cere mony owing to the rush of war work any change in the regular rou tine of his day was impossible the president this morning played golf with mrs wilson afterward working on the railroad address he will de liver next week before congresa white russia declares its independence petrograd dec 28 white russia has announced its de cision to be an independent re public at a meeting in minsk which is now in session a rada or governing body will be elected and a proclamation of independ ence issued this is the tenth portion of the russian empire to announce its secession since the fall of fhe romanoff dynasty the others are voronezh orenburg ukrainia caucasia finland siberia kuban amur don territory kaiser threat alarms russ trotsky spurs troops to front af j v ter ge'rman move to seize important towns stockholm dec 2s â€” an amer ican diplomatic courier to petrogrnd j has nren e/o*ed nflmj r i*loir'v miissia ? on the ground that his pass had not been vised by m borovshy the bol shevik minister at stockholm this is the first time that a regular cour ier's pass has not heen honored it is assumed here that the bolshevik hope in this way to exert pressure and compel the indirect recognition of their foreign representatives london dec 28 the bolshevik j government is reported panic | stricken over the rumored threat by ihe central powers to seize various | strategic points in russia unless the bolsheviki during the present re cess in brest-litovsk parleys are able to bring the entente countries to enter the parleys with a view to a general peace should russian mediation fail to bring this about according to the rumors germany will seize and oc cupy the strategic points in question as further pressure on the entente allies the semi-official russian news agency reports that foreign minis ter trotsky in an address to the pe trograd garrison reminded them that as peace had not been concluded as yet it was necessary to maintain the russian fighting front in answer to this appeal the report says the garrison voted to s^nd troops to all points where they were needed ten-day recess ox petrograd dec 28 â€” the central powers peace delegates have agreed to a ten-day recess in the peace negotiations which will be resumed . january 4 at a place not determined leon trotsky is reported to be pre paring a new note asking the allies to participate in the parleys he is also expected to issue shortly a mes , sage to the peoples of the world â– reds seize all banks detachments of the red guards un der orders from finance commission er menshinsky to-day seized all pri , vate banks in petrograd including i the branch of the national city bank of new york the manager of the latter r r stevens was arrested ' and detained for a short while the â– bank officials are accused of sabot â– age many gave up the keys to their vaults but mr stevens refused joffre to be made a french immortal paris dec 28 â€” announcement was made to-day that marshal joffre soon is to become one of the im mortals of the french academy the announcement says the french academy having been sounded on the subject of the candidature of marshal joffre it will show itself happy to receive in its bosom the glorious victor of the marne mrs armour waits in garage as gas freezes mrs j ogden armour and her daughter miss lolita spent half an hour in a wilmette garage yester day waiting for a relief machine from the armour lake forest estate when the automobile in which they were returning from Chicago became stalled because of frozen gasoline allies will revise war aims entente likely to make concessions america to stand on ideals of wilson no restatement of our war aims j held necessary good faith of teuton proposals is doubted bulgaria repudiates no annexa tion . policy nd intends to \ hold all conquered territory i i washington dec 28 a re statement of the war aims of j the allies is likely to result i from count czernin's proposals at brest-litovsk at the state depart j ment to-day it was said no further : statement is required from the unit ed states as this country's aims were clearly set forth by president wil son in his reply to the pope england france and italy how ever have made no such statement the letter of premier lloyd george to the british labor congress in which he said the question of issuing a fresh joint declaration was being con stantly kept in view by the allied governments was interpreted as her alding a new utterance germany hopes to estrange italy it is acknowledged that there are probably strong internal reasons within the entente countries for mak ing concessions to powerful political elements which are insisting on a re str.tement of war aims this restatement is apparently the prime object of the present german peace propaganda which was official ly characterized to-day as the great est political drive against the a'lies since the war began the germans hope according to diplomatic opinion here by this means to create es trangements among the allies them selves the german idea appears to be that by compelling the allies to define their war objects specifically a de sire to annex territories and impose indemnities will be divulged through the revelation of conflict ing aims they hope it is believed to bring about the desertion of such na tions as italy and greece before making any restatement however it is thought certain that the allies will want to assure them selves that count czernin's peace of fer speaks for all the central powers bulgaria's aims shown by premier already his formula of no annexa tions and no indemnities has been repudiated by bulgaria a diplomatic dispatch received here to-day gives the official bulgarian report of a speech by the prime minister before the bulgarian parliament at sofia the premier announced bulgaria's war aims in this speech our war aims are fixed we want , the unification of the bulgarian na tion of the bulgarian tribe in boundaries which are exactly fixed f we want the annulment of the bucharest treaty a correction of our frontier with serbia including in the territory of bulgaria all of the lands which are populated by bulgarians along the morava river to the danube we want macedonia with that part which by the treaty of bucharest was cut off from bul garia our claims are well known we are not worried by the formula without annexation and without in demnity our formula is the uni fication of the bulgarian nation the repudiation of count czernin's i terms by bulgaria has again raised the question of the central powers good faith even presuming that aus tria and germany can whip bulgaria into line . the question was asked what guarantee can we have that germany also will ot repudiate the terms either directly or by subter fuge george disclaims imperial purpose premier tells labor congress britain's object is same as at outset freedom of mankind henderson demands aims be re stated labor congress passes resolution for no-conquest peace london dec 2s â€” a new and definite statement of great britain's war aims is under consideration premier lloyd george , indicated to-day this announce ment was made in a letter the pre mier sent to the british trades and â€¢ labor union congress in this letter regarded as eng land's reply to the peace proposals made by the central powers at brest litovsk the premier said the question of a fresh declar ation of our war aims is constantly kept in view but such a declara tion will only be issued in agree ment with our allies achievement of the purposes for which the allies are fighting is es sential to the future freedom and peace of mankind allies purposes are not imperialistic or vindictive the ideals for which we are now fighting are the same as when great britain entered the war i have never been more con vinced than now that the purposes of the allies in continuing the war are not imperialistic or vindictive but to achieve the future freedom and peace of mankind president wilson's statement of the allied war aims recently made to congress were indorsed late this afternoon by unanimous vote by the trade and labor unionists at their j congress this vote followed an addre3 bur ! arthur henderson labor leader ji i which he declared england should go j on record as approving and accept i ing the american aims set forth by i president wilson | henderson sees fight for new government mr henderson said the war becomes a struggle of ! old and new systems of govern ! ment secret diplomacy and eoni ' pulsory military service should be i rendered unnecessary the allies must renounce their in tention of creating an impenetrable barrier against the german people germany's autocracy must give place to democracy militarism must be universally discredited labor asks an opportunity to as certain how germany is prepared to accept the laborite peac proposals the american people are fighting for a league of nation tn,->r l than anything else and yet this moment l has been selected by sir edward'car ' j son to treat that proposal with scorn i j and contempt â€” ; assails carson ; | henderson outlined carson's recent . j speech at portsmouth in which a i declared that not speaking lightly j we knew austria and turkey did uot | j want to continue a aren't we justified henderiortl continued in concluding th*t aijj u s too late to save allies says andrassy zukich dec 28 count julius andrassy former premier of hungary writing on the peace question says from the moment we were free in the east the whole situ ation fundamentally changed and the central powers now also will gain supremacy in the west it is no longer possible for america to give us the fin ishing stroke she must save the entente it is no longer her task to turn the last stage of the war into a final victory she must create victory out of defeat this will require great strength and i doubt if america posses ses this strength or can organ ize it before the western pow ers collapse upder our attacks france open 10 direct offer ' pinchon declares allies haye no | â– desire to crush foe but demands alsace i â€” ; i paris dec 28 â€” foreign minis : \ ter pinchon to-day declared in the chamber of deputies that by agree rnent with her allies prance was ready to discuss direct propositions regarding peace but characterized \ the czernin peace offer as an indi rect proposal he added germany is trying to involve us in her maximalist negotiations af ter suffering as we have we can not accept peace based on the status quo before the war france must conquer to assure the world a peace of justice and fraternity , we desire the liberation of our occupied territories just reparation for what has been forcibly torn from us reintegration of alsace lorraine reparation for damages sustained and a guarantee of dur able peace by international agree ments â€” a society of nations the question of alsace-lorraine does not affect france alone it is a world question it is not a territorial problem but a moral problem on its solution depends whether or not the world shall have a durable peace we are in direct agreement with president wilson on a society of nations after the war c s aims their own it never has been the intention of president wilson or the alliea i to destroy the german people all the allies through their rep j resentatives made the same dec laration at petrograd that on the day when a regularly constitut 1 â– . government founded on the national j will existed in russia we would be | ready to examine with it our war aims and the conditions of a just i and durable peace j the allies representatives ao j all unable to recognize a govern ment which made an armistice i without consulting its allies ally has deserted us \ at the conclusion of m pichon's address a resolution opposing the government's policy was voted down 411 to 90 a resolution approving the government's declaration was adopted 384 to 0 swift employe gone with 20,000 the poliie are hunting for john d storrie thirty-four 334 west six tieth street for three months a clerk at swift & co.'s wholesale market 317 south water street who has dis appeared with 20,000 2,000 of which was in cash and the remainder in stocks and drafts partly negotiable storrie formerly was employed by morros & co he is bonded accord ing to the manager edward v john son but not for the entire amount johnson said storrie was sent to the hibernian bank to deposit the mopey and checks one check fc 1,000 was cashed i continued on 2d page 2d column bucd on page 2 column 5 # final s edition c x you want q * ' a homelike attractively fur ) - ' nished room in a desirable sec tion of the city you can find just such a room advertised in l j the rooms to rent columns in i i ' === f the want ad section of this i r | paper 1 ' i